RawStory: "Firm linked to Obama patron scrubs '04 visit from website"

bidenista

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Thu Jan-31-08 11:36 AM
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RawStory: "Firm linked to Obama patron scrubs '04 visit from website"

Why has evidence of Saddam Hussein accomplice and oil billionaire Nadhmi Auchi's 2004 visit to Obama fundraiser Tony Rezko been scrubbed from the web?

Firm linked to Obama patron scrubs '04 visit from website

Michael Roston
Published: Thursday January 31, 2008

The controversial Iraq-born billionaire Nadhmi Auchi visited the state of Illinois in 2004 at the behest of Antoin "Tony" Rezko, the businessman and political player who helped raise money for Senator Barack Obama's early political campaigns. During the visit, Auchi met with the state's Democratic Governor, Rod Blagojevich, and other political figures. In what appears to be a clumsy "cleanup" operation, evidence of Auchi's visit to Illinois has now been deleted from two websites linked to his company, General Mediterranean Holding.

Auchi is no stranger to controversy but has been back in the news in recent weeks because of Rezko's pending prosecution on fraud and extortion charges. When federal authorities learned of a $3.5 million wire transfer from Auchi's company to Rezko's law firm, they sent the long-time friend of Senator Obama back to jail for violating the terms of his bail. Rezko's prosecution is scheduled to begin in late February.

After rumors began circulating that Auchi may have met with Obama, information was deleted from two websites connected to Auchi's company about a spring 2004 visit to the United States that occurred as Obama was campaigning to be Illinois' junior senator. On Tuesday, ABC News first reported the existence of photos showing Auchi meeting with Gov. Blagojevich on the website Middle East Online. The link on the website that the report pointed to, which said that "businessmen, and congressmen" also met with Auchi, is now gone.

More: http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Rezko_friend_scrubs_evidence_of_2004_0130.html

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KittyWampus

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Thu Jan-31-08 11:39 AM
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1. Well, since Obama isn't implicated in any of the mess, so what?

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bidenista

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Thu Jan-31-08 11:44 AM
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2. did you even READ the piece? nt

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KittyWampus

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Thu Jan-31-08 12:15 PM
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12. yes, and since Obama isn't implicated in the wrong doing cited WHO CARES?

Edited on Thu Jan-31-08 12:16 PM by cryingshame

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zabet

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Thu Jan-31-08 11:54 AM
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3. Damage control

by the Obama campaign
is why they were deleted.
Info like that tarnishes
Obama's golden image.

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Occam Bandage

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Thu Jan-31-08 11:57 AM
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4. I don't know why. Ask him. Obama isn't even involved with this business.

This entire affair is Blagojevich's baby.

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sunonmars

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Thu Jan-31-08 11:59 AM
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5. This Auchi guy is real toxic shit

Edited on Thu Jan-31-08 12:00 PM by sunonmars

He has links to Saddam, Gaddafi, iraqi deals and pharmaceutical scams. He can't get a visa for the US now but look what i come across below.

However somethings are starting to make sense, join the dots.

http://www.auchirichlist2006.com/biography.html

Between 1996 and 2000 Nadhmi Auchi was Vice Chair of the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Thats vey interesting. Does he know Teddy perchance.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1086487,00.html

Do all these guys know each other?

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FrenchieCat

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Thu Jan-31-08 12:00 PM
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6. Is this a full-time or Part-time gig? Any overtime or jpaid sick leave?

In your two weeks in employ, you are overwhelming yourself? Cause you are getting boring.

If you only post cut and paste and never comment, then who are you? :shrug:

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bidenista

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Thu Jan-31-08 12:04 PM
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8. ha.

The advice "Don't shoot the messenger" was first expressed by Shakespeare in Henry IV, part 2 (1598) and in Antony and Cleopatra<1> (1606-07). Prior to that, a related sentiment was expressed in Antigone by Sophocles as "No one loves the messenger who brings bad news."<1>.

An analogy of the phrase can come from the breaching of an invisible code of conduct in war, where a commanding officer was expected to receive and send back emissaries or diplomatic envoys sent by the enemy unharmed. During the early Warring States period of China, the concept of chivalry and virtue prevented the executions of messengers sent by opposing sides.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_the_messenger#Origins_of_the_phrase

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FrenchieCat

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Thu Jan-31-08 12:14 PM
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9. Happens to me all of the tme!

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Occam Bandage

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Thu Jan-31-08 12:14 PM
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11. ha.

In human-computer interaction, cut and paste and copy and paste offer user-interface paradigms for transferring text, data, files or objects from a source to a destination. Most ubiquitously, users require the ability to cut and paste sections of plain text. This paradigm has close associations with graphical user interfaces that use pointing devices such as a computer mouse (by drag and drop, for example).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut_and_paste

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Thu Jan-31-08 12:01 PM
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7. "Auchi met with the state's Democratic Governor, Rod Blagojevich"

OK, so Obama was in the same state at the time?

:rofl:

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Bitwit1234

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Thu Jan-31-08 12:14 PM
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10. Bullshit go read the whole article.....

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